Woven Songs: Kapwani Kiwanga in conversation with Edi Muka
In the first episode of Woven Songs, Edi Muka, curator at Public Art Agency Sweden, speaks to the artist Kapwani Kiwanga, who's works Positive-Negative (morphology), Implements, Fire and Fallow and Nursery are on view at Välkommaskolan in Malmberget. Focusing on our relationship with and attitude to the earth, the conversation revolves around historic processes of colonization and their impact on current societal structures and power relations. The conversation in English. – Woven Songs is a series of radio programmes that through interviews, sound works and acoustic interventions tells us of places, histories and the power structures they bear the stamp of. The series is based on conversations with the artists included in the eponymous exhibition, included in the 2020 Luleå Biennial. The series also comprises conversations with the curators and invited guests who offer deepened contributions, under the headline Sound and Soil among others. Woven Songs is produced in collaboration with the Programming department at Public Art Agency Sweden. Through an in-depth series of radio shows we strive to accentuate the role of singing and voices in the creation of new world views and orders. Woven Songs poses a series of questions that concern something as matter-of-fact as the earth, and how we live our lives there. In various ways Woven Songs grapples with suspending a western logic in which the magical perspective has been separated from the level of everyday life. It turns the ear to the ground and listens to the rumble, traumas and songs that are awoken. Soil and Sound brings forth questions on the material conditions of art and public discourse on an earth circumscribed by borders and permeated by sound waves, where the untranslatable and that which cannot be cleared away can spawn forms of resistance.